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Privacy

Policy

Medical disclaimer

Please do not rely on electronic communications for assistance in regard to your immediate, urgent medical needs. Our website is not designed to facilitate medical emergencies. Breach candy hospital trust cannot guarantee response times if you choose to use our website in the event of a medical emergency.


Personal information

A visitor can access and browse our entire site at any time without providing any personal information. We do not collect information that would personally identify you unless you choose to provide it.

In addition, Breach Candy Hospital Trust does not share any personally identifiable information of any individual with any third party unrelated to Breach Candy Hospital Trust, except in situations where we must provide information for legal purposes or investigations, or if so directed by the patient through a proper authorization.


Forms

Our website contains forms through which users may request information or supply feedback to us. In some cases, telephone numbers, email addresses or return addresses are required so that we can supply requested information to you, and in other cases, correct names and addresses are required to process credit card payments.

After you fill out a form, we may contact you with follow-up information. We do not provide any information supplied on our web forms to any outside organization for any reason (other than where we may be required to by law, or as necessary to process credit card information). We do not save this personal information for any other reason.


Surveys

Occasionally, we may survey visitors to our site. The information from these surveys is used in aggregate form to help us understand the needs of our visitors so that we can improve our site. We generally do not ask for information in surveys that would personally identify you. If we do request contact information for follow-up, you may decline to provide it. If survey respondents provide personal information (such as an email address) in a survey, it is shared only with those people who need to see it to respond to the question or request.


Disclaimer of warranty

Materials, services and other information are provided “as is” by breach candy hospital trust for educational purposes only. Breach candy hospital trust makes no express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or use, title or non infringement.

Please note that, by its very nature, a website cannot be absolutely protected against intentional or malicious intrusion attempts. Furthermore, breach candy hospital trust does not control the devices or computers or the internet over which you may choose to send confidential personal information and cannot, therefore, prevent such interceptions of compromises to your information while in transit to breach candy hospital trust.

Therefore, breach candy hospital trust hereby makes no guarantee as to security, integrity or confidentiality of any information transmitted to or from this website or stored within this website.

Beyond our reasonable care to safeguard your information while in transit, breach candy hospital trust cannot and does not guarantee the absolute security of electronic communications or transmissions since any transmission made over the internet by any organization or any individual runs the risk of interception.

In addition, we hereby make no guarantee as to security, integrity or confidentiality of any information transmitted to or from this website or stored within this website.


Limitation of liability

You assume the sole risk of transmitting your information as it relates to the use of this website and for any data corruptions, intentional interceptions, intrusions or unauthorized access to information or of any delays, interruptions to or failures preventing the use of this website.

In no event shall breach candy hospital trust be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or monetary damages, including fees and penalties in connection with your use of materials posted on this site or connectivity to or from this site to any other site.

Breach candy hospital trust may change this privacy policy without notice to you.


By using this website, you accept these terms

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or our use of information gathered through our Website, please contact our IT DEPARTMENT at it@breachcandyhospital.org.

This notice describes how medical information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.

At Breach Candy Hospital Trust, we believe your health information is personal. We keep records of the care and services that you receive at our facilities. We are committed to keeping your health information private and we are required by law to respect your confidentiality.

This Notice describes the privacy practices of Breach Candy Hospital Trust. This Notice applies to all of the health information that identifies you and the care you receive at BCH facilities. This information may consist of paper, digital or electronic records but could also include photographs, videos and other electronic transmissions or recordings that are created during your care and treatment. We are legally required to keep your health information private, to notify you of our legal responsibilities and privacy practices that relate to your health information and to notify you if there is a breach of your unsecured health information. We are also legally required to give you this Notice and to follow the terms of the Notice currently in effect.

All of our employed physicians, consultants, facilities, home care programs, other services follow the terms of this Notice. The doctors and other caregivers at BCH who are not employed by BCH exchange information about you as a patient with BCH employees.


How BCH may use and disclose your health information

When you become a patient of BCH, we will use your health information within BCH and disclose your health information outside BCH for the reasons described in this Notice. The following categories describe some of the ways that we will use and disclose your health information.

Payment

We may use and disclose your health information so that the health care you receive can be billed and paid for by you, your insurance company, or another third party. For example, we may give information about surgery you had here to your Insurance Company so it will pay us or reimburse you for the surgery. We may also tell your Insurance Company about a treatment you are going to receive, so we can get prior payment approval or learn if your plan will pay for the treatment.

Health Care Operations

We may use your health information and disclose it outside BCH for our health care operations. These uses and disclosures help us operate BCH to maintain and improve patient care. For example, we may use your health information to review the care you received and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you. We also may combine health information about many patients to identify new services to offer, what services are not needed, and whether certain therapies are effective. We may also disclose information to doctors, nurses, technicians, medical students and other persons at BCH for learning and quality improvement purposes. We may remove information that identifies you so people outside BCH can study your health data without knowing who you are.

Contacting You

We may use and disclose health information to reach you about appointments and other matters. We may contact you by telephone or email.

Health-Related Services

We may use and disclose health information about you to send you mailings about health-related products and services available at BCH.

Legal Matters

We will disclose health information about you outside BCH when required to do so by local law or by the court process. We may disclose health information about you for public health reasons like reporting births, deaths, reactions to medications or problems with medical products. We may release health information to help control the spread of disease or to notify a person whose health or safety may be threatened. We may disclose health information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law such as for audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure.


Authorizations for other uses and disclosures

As described above, we will use your health information and disclose it outside BCH for treatment, payment, health care operations, and when required or permitted by law. We will not use or disclose your health information for other reasons without your written authorization. For example, most uses and disclosures of psychotherapy notes, uses and disclosures of health information for certain marketing purposes, and disclosures that constitute a sale of health information require your written authorization. These kinds of uses and disclosures of your health information will be made only with your written authorization. You may revoke the authorization in writing at any time, but we cannot take back any uses or disclosures of your health information already made with your authorization.


Changes to this notice

BCH may change this Notice at any time. Any change in the Notice could apply to medical information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future.

NOTICE: If you send health information to Breach Candy Hospital Trust via email, please know that your message may be sent in an unencrypted email. An unencrypted email means there is a risk that the information in the email and any attachments could potentially be read by a third party when it is sent through the internet.